Editors' Review

Many of us don't give much thought to fonts, aside from selecting our favorite from the drop-down menu of whatever we happen to be working on. For other people, however--graphic designers, Web designers, and general font nerds--fonts are serious business. NexusFont is a simple font manager that can help people keep their fonts organized and easy to browse.

The program's interface is plain and intuitive, with a handful of menus and buttons for easy navigation. The program automatically accesses and displays all fonts that are installed on your computer, and you can easily import new fonts as well. NexusFont is a great way to preview and compare fonts; the heart of the program is a scrollable list of fonts that displays whatever sample text you like. You can view the fonts in different colors, sizes, and styles, as well as turn antialiasing on and off. NexusFont also displays metadata--the font's version, foundry, and so on--and you can add your own tags to the fonts. Groups and sets let you organize fonts in ways that make sense to you, although we admit we were never entirely clear on what the difference was between the two; the program's online Help file doesn't go into much detail about this. Overall, we think that NexusFont is a great way to organize and preview fonts, especially for people who don't want to shell out big bucks for a font manager.

NexusFont installs politely but leaves a folder behind upon removal. We recommend this program to everyone.

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Publisher's Description

NexusFont is a font manager for Windows. If you have many fonts and you need to choose fonts you want, this program is for you. You can compare many fonts at once. And there are useful functions to manage font files. Supported font types are TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, and Adobe Type1. Install or Uninstall fonts: install fonts into system or uninstall fonts from system.

Love that I can type out some text and view how it looks with all the fonts.

Cons

The program keeps disappearing! Every time I need to use it, I have to re-install it because it is mysteriously no longer on my computer. If it would stay on my computer, I would give this computer 5 stars.

I'm a graphic designer who has used all sorts of font managers over the years. With nearly 3000 fonts installed, this program loads them up quick. I mainly use it to categorize different typefaces, like script font., handwriting, serif, trendy.... etc.
After spending all sorts of time making sets and tagging fonts, sometimes i load the program and everything is reset to default. No way to get back all those lists or tags. There really should be a way to export these lists.
The rest of the features could be tightened-up but they are otherwise excellent for a free program.

Fonts added to groups can be activated when needed without installation, so the system won't be slowed down with hundreds of fonts installed. You can categorize fonts whether they are installed or not installed in your library by adding them to sets.

Cons

Sometimes the fonts within a set wouldn't show and I need to click on the installed fonts for it to load up and click on the set again for the fonts to appear.

I have spent the last hour scrubbing my computer of the trash that came downloaded from cnet along with this program. I have always trusted cnet until now for virus-free downloads, but NexusFont came with SweetPacks Toolbar, Conduit Search Engine, and several others that take control of all browsers and are hard to get rid of. Thanks, cnet.

Actually, sixwingsfire, it IS a valid review. You say "Unfortunately Cnet's installer is Ad-ware sponsored". I call bu115hit on that. Are you really so naive as to believe that "Conduit Search Protect", "MyBabylon", "Mobogenie" and the other crapware that rides in on Download.com's installer are paying Download.com for that service?!

CNet's own download FAQ states "a small number of security publishers have flagged the Installer as adware or a potentially unwanted application".

Also, Download.com/CNet is a subsidiary of CBS, which earns hundreds of millions in profits every year, some of that through Download.com's advertising revenues, so Download.com's installer does NOT have to have an installer be "sponsored" by ANYTHING. The only thing it's costing Download.com to provide the installer is a trivial amount of server space; the software itself is provided for free by each publisher.

You chose to install using Cnet's installer instead of the Direct Download link provided. Unfortunately Cnet's installer is Ad-ware sponsored, and you have to carefully read what you are agreeing to, and "decline" the "special offers" or else they are installed also. THIS IS NOT the program's fault, and really shouldn't reflect negatively on its review. NexusFont does not come with any of the undesired installations or ad-ware. If you would have declined the offers or simply directly downloaded it instead of using the Cnet Installer. This review reflects negatively on a perfectly good program, therefore it is not helpful.

Just in reference to the some comments in the previous review, the font the reviewer refers to as being distorted is a font with known problems of distortion which would also be distorted if opened in Word, for example. Also, fonts are easily resized simply by clicking on the drop-down menu at the top of the window.

This program offers lots of useful options but the high point for me is being able to tag fonts with my own keywords, then I can view by tag. I have certain fonts I use for certain types of designs but I can never remember all the names and it is tedious looking through all the fonts for the ones you want. Now I just tag them and they are easy to find again. I also like being able to input some text and see that text displayed in the list of fonts. I like being able to sort by font type, as well, when viewing the whole list.

The cons:Some fonts are distorted in the display. For instance, Academy Engraved displays the 'e' superimposed over the letter before it.

I cannot resize the fonts. The instructions say to press control and use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the size but this does not work for me.

It would be great to be able to set some preferences. I would like "add" to be checked by default rather than "replace" when adding tags to fonts, for example.

All in all this is a very useful program and I highly recommend it. Just keep your eyes open when installing from cnet and be sure to uncheck or cancel all the spam they want to install- lol!

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